Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.

Herodotus
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  1. It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you. It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled. It's not a weakness. It's your best strength. - Patrick Ness

  2. No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way. - Chuck Palahniuk

  3. The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control. - Bell Hooks

  4. Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. - Ralph Ellison

  5. You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway. - Steve Maraboli

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  2. When the rich give a party and the meal is finished, a man carries round amongst the guests a wooden image of a corpse in a coffin, carved and painted to look as much like the real thing as possible, and anything from 18 inches...

  3. In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

  4. If an important decision is to be made, they [the Persians] discuss the question when they are drunk, and the following day the master of the house where the discussion was held submits their decision for reconsideration when they are sober. If they still approve...

  5. Now if a man thus favoured died as he has lived, he will be just the one you are looking for: the only sort of person who deserves to be called happy. But mark this: until he is dead, keep the word "happy" in reserve....

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